Rhoeteia

In Greek mythology, Rhoeteia (Ancient Greek: Ῥοιτεία Rhoiteia) was the name which can be attributed to two distinct women who gave their name to the Trojan promontory of Rhoeteium.[1]

Rhoiteia, daughter of the sea-god Proteus.[2]
Rhoeteia, a Thracian princess as daughter of the King Sithon and the naiad Achiroe.[3] She was a sister of Pallene.[4]

Notes

Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Rhoiteion
Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.929 (ed. Wendel)
Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 583 & 1161

Conon, Narrations 10

References

Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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